FriendDate

A friend date is what I’ve started calling it when two ladies, not looking to meet up in anyway sexually, hang out and trying figure out if they’re going to be friends moving forward.

What I’m finding is that friend-dating is harshly akin to real life dating. And I’m really bad at it.

To give a little context, I’m bad at sexual dating. Or rather, I’m really good at dating in my own way. I did after all, find my husband to be through this method.

I’m a “sex on the first night” kind of girl, an “I don’t want to know your last name” kind of girl, a true believer in “if I remember your name and number tomorrow, maybe it’s fate and if not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”. I’ll stop there with the details, but I found this system cut through a lot of the bullshit, it immediately opened people up because (surprise!) it’s easier to be open with people when you’re both naked (in my experience). Usually, I could avoid the attachment that comes with the mundane art of “getting to know” someone, and in one night figure out if the sex was good, in general what kind of soul you had, usually a good amount about your childhood and that was enough for me to either figure out if you were worth truly getting close to or not.

Efficient, right?

Needless to say that method doesn’t work when friend dating because the whole point of friendship is to emotionally bond with someone. Hence why I have precious few friends.

I don’t necessarily think having few friends is a bad thing, but I am finding it puts a lot of pressure on that special handful of people to be my one and only support. But also, I’m a HUGE believer in Shine Theory and I’m out to really surround myself with radiant people, so I’m diversifying my portfolio a little these days.

So far I’ve had two dates that went reasonably well, I think. Both were with super smart inspiring women. I’ll keep you posted on the progress, fingers crossed!

Anyway, if you’re also on a quest to find new friends, I’ve compiled a list of handy items below:

One of my dates gave me this book she read called MWF Seaking BFF by Rachel Bertsche about the author’s quest to find a best friend in a new city. This book is the bible for FriendDating.